Jews Of Today: Those Remaining In The Bottle Neck

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

Today's Wonder Woman, played by  Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress and model, plays Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe films. She's what every Israel woman needs to be these days, a remnant of the bottle neck which luckily had kept some mighty good genes.  

We wake up to the fact that we lost 6 million of our Jewish population to the Nazis; slaughtered wholesale over pits, tossed into gas chambers, out of a world population in 1930 was estimated to be around 15.8 million. people.  According to most recent estimates, Jews make up approximately 0.2% of the world population today. Explanation: "0.2%" is read as "two-tenths of a percent"--Not 2%.  This figure is based on data from sources like the Pew Research Center, which states that the global Jewish population is around 15 million people, representing 0.2% of the total world population.  We were almost a disappearing people at the end of WWII.  

It looks like we've regained our numbers that were established in 1930.  It only took us 95 years to do it.  

The Exodus with our ancestors entered Canaan with 601,730 made up of the 12 tribes of Jacob. That was the number on the 2nd and last census taken by Joshua as listed in Numbers ch.26. Today we've surpassed that number.  

 The latest census of Israel in December 2023 is 9,842,000.  The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics defines the population of Israel as including Jews living in Judea and Samaria and Palestinians in East Jerusalem but excluding Palestinians anywhere in the rest of Judea and Samaria, the Gaza Strip, and foreign workers anywhere in Israel. As of December 2023, this calculation stands at approximately 9,842,000 of whom:

• 73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in Judea and Samaria.                                 
  

  Jews had worried during WWI about anti-Semitism and had met in the 20's withthe British about creating a Jewish Homeland.  It wasn't to come about until May 14, 1948 by the departing of the British from Palestine and the blood and tears ofthose Jewish soldiers that remained in the country to defend their rights.  By rights, wehad about 9.8 million Jews left in the world;  mostly in Palestine, the USA, Canada and England.  It was the European Jews who were first murdered by the Nazi regime.  

In genealogy and DNA studies, a "bottleneck" refers to a historical event where a population size drastically decreased, leading to a significant reduction in genetic diversity among descendants due to a smaller gene pool passed on from a limited number of ancestors; essentially, a "narrowing" of the genetic lineage, similar to how only a small amount of liquid can pass through the neck of a bottle at once. 

Take a good look at our Jewish people of today, and you are looking at people that are  the remnants  of a bottleneck.    We lost a lot of good genes that came to their end, never to carry on and continueproducing great people.                              

  Albert Einstein's parents: 

                                                Albert Einstein made it out of Germany just in time.  He was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, German and died April 18,1955 at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.  He was father of 3 children. He   won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.  

How many more Einsteins did we lose in the Holocaust?  

Going way back, our men have had to defend us by belonging to armies.  Everycountry has lost millions this way and in doing so, the bottle neck of the male population become the next generation of producing children.  

In a pharaoh's tomb we see a painting of the Israelites entering Egypt, so we can  see  what our ancestors way back looked like in about 1579 BCE.  

                     1. Esti Ginzburg: 5’8, born in 1990, Israeli model

Ginzburg made her acting debut in the 2010 Joel Schumacher film Twelve and endeared herself to many Israelis for her choice to join the Israel Defense Forces in 2009 at age 19. She's a vocal champion of military service,   I believe women serve actively for 2 years.  

                               2. Chava (Hava) Mond: 5’9, born in 1983

                                   Chava Mond  Photo by Ben Hopper/Alondon magazine

Mond has the most atypical background for an Israeli model, as she was raised in the kabbalistic Galilee city of Safed by religious, English-speaking parents. When she was traveling in London with her aunt at age 16, a Select agent spotted her and offered her a modeling job. She insisted on first finishing high school and National Service, the army alternative for religious Israelis. When she finally was ready, she made it clear that she would not work on Saturdays, eats only kosher food and won’t model swimsuits and underwear.                                                              

                                                                                       

     

Not all women are models or actresses in Israel, but all serve in the IDF with a possible few exceptions, has been for less time than men.  

Resource:

https://www.israel21c.org/ginzburg-refaeli-israels-top-10-models/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_Gadot#:~:text=Gal%20Gadot%20(Hebrew%3A%20%D7%92%D7%9C%20%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA,Miss%20Israel%20pageant%20in%202004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-jew/#:~:text=There%20are%20about%2014%20million,matrilineal%20Jewish%20descent)%20were%20imposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#:~:text=A%20population%20bottleneck%20or%20genetic,the%20pool%20itself%20is%20reduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jewish_population#:~:text=The%20global%20Jewish%20population%20was,reaching%2012%20million%20by%201960.